NEILL One day, Bruce Dern came around to my house to drop off, and he took me aside and clapped me on the shoulder. Sometimes I do big things that I think are conspicuous, and I’ll tell you, a week will go by, and it’s as if it never happened. GOLDBLUM I’m not focused on the commerce of it all - I still consider myself a humble student of the creative endeavor - but I do remember that opening weekend was exciting. How did your lives change when “Jurassic Park” became the highest-grossing movie ever made? And so I fell in love with them both from day one. NEILL I found it kind of daunting, but the great thing about Jeff is he’s kind of a lovable dork as well. GOLDBLUM Gee, I didn’t know you felt so strongly about me! To have that kind of banter and connection and friendship was so amazing. And also, no wonder the three of us became friends. I watched it with my daughter, and it was amazing to see it through her eyes - there’s nothing dated about it. Laura, had you stumbled across the first film in the intervening years?ĭERN I really hadn’t seen it all the way through until three days before we went to start this movie. I’ve heard him tell that a couple of times, and it’s just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son’s crimes, and I don’t think she’ll talk to me afterwards.” But she was well brought up and never mentioned it. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, “Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy’s fart, but she’s going to think it’s me. ![]() On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening. How long has it been since you’ve seen the original “Jurassic Park”? “Dinosaurs are the bit players, albeit awesome ones.” “These ‘Jurassic’ films, they’re often known as dinosaur films, but if you’re not interested in the people, the films don’t work,” Neill said. On their late-April Zoom call, Neil, Dern and Goldblum were eager to catch up, engage in some light teasing and ponder how their lasting chemistry as a trio has proved as potent a selling point as all those special effects. ![]() It pits Neill’s Alan Grant, Dern’s Ellie Sattler and Goldblum’s smoothie mathematician Ian Malcolm against ever-more-fearsome dinosaurs and linking them up with characters played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, who have been leading the franchise since 2015’s “Jurassic World.” Now, five sequels later, the new “Jurassic World Dominion,” directed by Colin Trevorrow, has brought the three actors back together in a bid to recapture the original’s magic. Though nearly three decades have passed since the trio starred in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 dinosaur epic, that series-starter still manages to resonate in impressive ways. And Laura Dern, who was away filming the Netflix romance “Lonely Planet,” dialed in from Morocco with a story for them both: “I was walking down this narrow street in a market in the middle of Marrakesh to go into our set,” she said, “and this 9-year-old boy comes running up in Arabic talking about ‘Jurassic Park.’” Sam Neill connected from Sydney, where the brightly colored lorikeets outside were chirping. Jeff Goldblum hopped on the video call from his home in Los Angeles.
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